Tabula 70 (Ytterbium) - Thursday 5th June 2014

Tabula 70 (Ytterbium) was released on Thursday 5th June 2014. The main visible improvements and changes are:

Staff profile pages and staff timetables

We have released individual profiles for staff members, similar to those available for students at the University. These profiles include a teaching timetable (including teaching events from Syllabus+ and small group events in Tabula), a marking gadget for coursework management, and information about small groups that the staff member is a tutor of. Currently, each staff member can see their own profile in Tabula (linked to from the Profiles page) but cannot view other staff members' profiles.

Coursework submissions and feedback in student profiles

As well as providing a view of past and upcoming coursework deadlines, it's now possible to view student submissions, marks and feedback from the coursework gadget in their student profile for users who have permission to see that information. This makes it possible to grant external examiners permissions on an individual profile, allowing them to see the student's submissions, marks and feedback within Tabula.

Masquerading for departmental administrators

Departmental administrators can now masquerade as other staff or students in their department to see what that person sees in Tabula. As part of this, it is not possible to view any information in Tabula that is not already visible to the administrator, and it's not possible to perform any actions that modify Tabula while masquerading as another person.

Visual description of roles/capabilities within Tabula

We've created a page describing roles and capabilities within Tabula in a visual form, making it easier to see which roles can perform which actions. In permissions pages for your department, you can click the 'About roles' link in the top right to see a version of this page which has been customised for your own department, including any changes from the standard Tabula set-up and any custom roles that have been created.

General improvements and fixes

Responding to feedback in the May Tabula User Group, we have renamed 'Attendance Monitoring' to 'Monitoring Points'

A bug that meant some students did not appear in profile searches has been fixed

We no longer send late submission reminders for open-ended assignments

We no longer send late submission reminders for assignments that do not collect submissions

Activity streams now show submission reminders based on the date of the notification, not the current date, so students will no longer erroneously see late submission notifications in their feed that aren't true

Submission alerts are now correctly sent to department-level module managers

A bug that caused some files to be downloaded with a .htm extension instead of a .zip extensio has been fixed

A bug that made it difficult to view Feedback information when scrolled down the page has been fixed

Meeting records are no longer explicitly "rejected"; they are returned to the creator for amendments

It's possible to "undo" marking where a submission has mistakenly been marked as "Marking completed"